Re: Ridiculous question about CVS's ability extension

[Max Bowsher]

Bhushit Joshipura wrote:
> I am not able to convince myself completely that the following idea is
> ridiculous. Please help.
>
> My C / C++ / TCL projects have been in CVS.
>
> CVS knows last dozens of changes that the code underwent exactly. This
> way, it knows the past and present of software.
>
> Is it possible to comeup with some extension of CVS that can *predict*
> my next checkin based on this data?
>
> We can use some predicting technique and feed basic block graph or
> some higher level grammar as data. The outcome may be as vague as "in
> function a, add else to seventh if's second if's third case" or "in
> function a, add else somewhere inside seventh if".

Seems fairly ridiculous to me. You are essentially asking CVS to *write your
project for you* !!!

I think if even a weak form of this kind of prediction was at all feasible
with a practical degree of accuracy, we would see it in an IDE - probably
either commercial, or university-based, given the likely quantity of
research involved.



Max.